gaming
By ignoring gaming, mainstream journalism is eroding trust with younger people Paid Members Public
Are we making a terrible mistake by ignoring games in mainstream journalism?
Publishers & Pokémon Go: there's nothing for the likes of you here Paid Members Public
Publishers won’t – and can’t – learn anything from Pokémon Go [https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/no-publishers-can-t-learn-anything-from-pok-mon-go] says Chris Sutcliffe: > Even thoughtful, forward-thinking pieces about lessons from Pokémon Go like this one from Poynter’s Melody Kramer [http://www.poynter.org/2016/what-journalists-can-learn-from-pokemon-go/420963/] are written with the assumption publishers
Fighting trolling with academic rigour Paid Members Public
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the biggest games in the eSports sector – League of Legends [http:
Making good life choices Paid Members Public
This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/blizz-box.jpg] What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for
Journalism in 2014 Paid Members Public
Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014 [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/12/26/a-review-of-online-journalism-in-2014-and-predictions-for-2015/] . Of note: > YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there are serious non-mainstream
LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/adam-gazzaley.jpg] What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right
Obligatory #gamergate post Paid Members Public
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
LeWeb: Angry Birds, Happy Business Paid Members Public
That bizarre image of our host dressed up as the most basic of the Angry Birds [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/12/leweb_angry_birds_loc.html] had a purpose: it was setting the scene for the arrival of Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio, the people who are stealing away
